autochthones

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Such is now the profane explanation of the term autochthones.

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  • One or two letters, written to scientific friends at the time the above-mentioned circular was issued, will give an idea of the way in which Agassiz laid out such investigations TO JAMES D. DANA CAMBRIDGE, July 8, 1853 I have been lately devising some method of learning how far animals are truly autochthones, and how far they have extended their primitive boundaries. —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • If they are autochthones, from what germs did they start into existence? —  Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence
  • Such is now the profane explanation of the term autochthones. —  Five Years of Theosophy
  • [81] The word autochthones) has a cognate meaning; Liddell and Scott render it, “of the land itself; Latin, terrigenæ, aborigines, indigenæ_, of the original race, not settlers_.” The mythical account of the origin of the “giants” concurs with this etymology. —  Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
  • When occupied of a mellow October afternoon by a party of the autochthones, in their pea-jackets of blue or hickory homespun, it presents a gay and cheery spectacle. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
 

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